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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] e2fsprogs: add populate-extfs.sh
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On 08/23/2013 01:29 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 09:13 -0400, Robert Yang wrote:
>> This script is originally from Darren Hart, it will be used for creating
>> the ext* filesystem from a given directory, which will replace the
>> genext2fs in image_types.bbclass at the moment, we may use the mke2fs to
>> replace this script again when it has the initial directory support.
>>
>> Changes of the script:
>> * Rename it from mkdebugfs.sh to populate-extfs.sh
>> * Add a simple usage
>> * Add checking for the number of the parameters
>> * Add the "regular empty file" and "fifo" file type
>> * Set mode, uid and gid for the file
>> * Save the command lines to a file and batch run them
>> * Change the error message
>> * Improve the performance
>> * Add the support for hardlink
>>
>> [YOCTO #3848]
>
>> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
>
>
> Ted has offered to add this to the contrib dir for the ext2 tools. This
> is fine to add to yocto, but we should contribute this back upstream as
> well.
>

Thanks, I will send it to linux ext4 list.

// Robert

>